.TH NTPDC 1 2009-12-10 "( 4.2.6)" "Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
ntpdc \- vendor-specific NTP query program
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ntpdc
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[ host ...]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page briefly documents the \fBntpdc\fP command.
The
[= prog-name =]
utility program is used to query an NTP daemon about its
current state and to request changes in that state.
It uses NTP mode 7 control message formats described in the source code.
The program may
be run either in interactive mode or controlled using command line
arguments.
Extensive state and statistics information is available
through the
[= prog-name =]
interface.
In addition, nearly all the
configuration options which can be specified at startup using
ntpd's configuration file may also be specified at run time using
[= prog-name =] .
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-4 ", " \--ipv4
Force IPv4 DNS name resolution.
This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
ipv6.
.sp
Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line
to the IPv4 namespace.
.TP
.BR \-6 ", " \--ipv6
Force IPv6 DNS name resolution.
This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
ipv4.
.sp
Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line
to the IPv6 namespace.
.TP
.BR \-c " \fIcmd\fP, " \--command "=" \fIcmd\fP
run a command and exit.
This option may appear an unlimited number of times.
.sp
The following argument is interpreted as an interactive format command
and is added to the list of commands to be executed on the specified
host(s).
.TP
.BR \-l ", " \--listpeers
Print a list of the peers.
This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
command.
.sp
Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of
their state. This is equivalent to the 'listpeers' interactive command.
.TP
.BR \-p ", " \--peers
Print a list of the peers.
This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
command.
.sp
Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary
of their state. This is equivalent to the 'peers' interactive command.
.TP
.BR \-s ", " \--showpeers
Show a list of the peers.
This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
command.
.sp
Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary
of their state. This is equivalent to the 'dmpeers' interactive command.
.TP
.BR \-i ", " \--interactive
Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode.
This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
command, listpeers, peers, showpeers.
.sp
Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode. Prompts will be written
to the standard output and commands read from the standard input.
.TP
.BR \-d ", " \--debug-level
Increase output debug message level.
This option may appear an unlimited number of times.
.sp
Increase the debugging message output level.
.TP
.BR \-D " \fIstring\fP, " \--set-debug-level "=" \fIstring\fP
Set the output debug message level.
This option may appear an unlimited number of times.
.sp
Set the output debugging level. Can be supplied multiple times,
but each overrides the previous value(s).
.TP
.BR \-n ", " \--numeric
numeric host addresses.
.sp
Output all host addresses in dotted-quad numeric format rather than
converting to the canonical host names.
.TP
.BR \-? , " \--help"
Display extended usage information and exit.
.TP
.BR \-! , " \--more-help"
Extended usage information passed thru pager.
.TP
.BR \-> " [\fIrcfile\fP]," " \--save-opts" "[=\fIrcfile\fP]"
Save the option state to \fIrcfile\fP. The default is the \fIlast\fP
configuration file listed in the \fBOPTION PRESETS\fP section, below.
.TP
.BR \-< " \fIrcfile\fP," " \--load-opts" "=\fIrcfile\fP," " \--no-load-opts"
Load options from \fIrcfile\fP.
The \fIno-load-opts\fP form will disable the loading
of earlier RC/INI files. \fI--no-load-opts\fP is handled early,
out of order.
.TP
.BR \- " [{\fIv|c|n\fP}]," " \--version" "[=\fI{v|c|n}\fP]"
Output version of program and exit. The default mode is `v', a simple
version. The `c' mode will print copyright information and `n' will
print the full copyright notice.
.SH OPTION PRESETS
Any option that is not marked as \fInot presettable\fP may be preset
by loading values from configuration ("RC" or ".INI") file(s) and values from
environment variables named:
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\fBNTPDC_\fP or \fBNTPDC\fP
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The environmental presets take precedence (are processed later than)
the configuration files.
The \fIhomerc\fP files are "\fI$HOME\fP", and "\fI.\fP".
If any of these are directories, then the file \fI.ntprc\fP
is searched for within those directories.
.SH AUTHOR
David L. Mills and/or others
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Please send bug reports to: http://bugs.ntp.org, bugs@ntp.org
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see html/copyright.html
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This manual page was \fIAutoGen\fP-erated from the \fBntpdc\fP
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